"The Indians, as known to all nations for many centuries, are the metal [essence] of wisdom, the source of fairness and objectivity. They are peoples of sublime pensiveness, universal apologues, and useful and rare inventions. In spite of the fact that their color is in the first stage of blackness, which puts them in the same category as the blacks, Allah, in His glory, did not give them the low characters, the poor manners, or the inferior principles associated with this group and ranked them above a large number of white and brown peoples."
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Said ibn Ahmad Andalusi, Science in the medieval world (1068). (1068:11) Science in the medieval world: aBook of the categories of nations" (Tabaqà t al-'umam). Trans. Semacan I. Salem and Alok Kumar. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. quoted from Trautmann, Thomas R. (2008). Aryans and British India.
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